38o DICOTYLEDONES 



6. tab. 544- Iconogr. taurin. ^n. lalj. io5. Coritlothymus capitatus Reich. f. 



1. c. tab. 1771. ic. 2. 

 Tliymum Matth. Valgr. p. 721. ic. Gamer. Epit. p. 485. ic. Lob. Obs. p. aSi 



ic. !.•*■ et Icon. i. p. ^i^. ic. 2.-*- 

 Th. legitimum Clus. Hist. i. p. SS^. ic. ■♦• 

 Th. cephaloton Dod. Pempt. p. 276. ic. i.*»- 

 Th. ci-eticum, incanum, capitatum Barr. Icon. tab. 897.- 



Ramiili deflorati, steriles, apice subspinescentes. Pili, juxta ramos, 

 crebriusculi , patuli deflexive, subaequales , breves, longioribus iden- 

 tidem interjecti: lii, ad basiiu foliorum, saepe utrinque couferti an- 

 nuKimque ciliarem , patuhim praebentes. Folia crebro glanduloso- 

 punctata, pilosula, tenuissime puberula aut glabra, inferiore margine 

 plerumque ciliata, facie planiuscula aut canaUculata, dorso convexo- 

 carinata, superiora sensim majora: juniora, ad gemmas rameas, axil- 

 lares, cruciatim imbricata. Bractea, ad cuiusque cymae basim: bra- 

 cteolae, ad quamque pariter cymam, utrinque, pedicellares: illa latior, 

 hae angustiores, caetero subconformes, ovato-oblongae , oblongae, spa- 

 thulato-ellipticae spathulatove-lanceolatae , obtusae acutaeve, glabrae 

 aut dorso hirsutae, margine ciliatae, calicem subaequantes aut supe- 

 rantes, Cymae cruciatim, juxta rachim, oppositae, subtriflorae, sub- 

 sessiles: pedicellis brevissimis. Calix circa basim hirtidus, superna facie 

 planus aut plano-concavus , glaber aut vix puberulus, obiter striatus, 

 subtus obtuse carinato-convexus, glandulis creberrimis obsitus, mar- 

 gine laterali utroque attenuato acutoque, ciliato: fructifer, ainbitu, 

 ellipticus, labiis, invicem accumbentibus , clausus : superioris dens in- 

 termedius lateralibus, subinde, brevior: inferioris laciniae, congenerum 

 more, lineari-subulatae , ciliatae: faux barbata. CoroIIa purpurascens, 

 calice, fere triplo, longior, tubo recto: labio superiore breviore, cmar- 

 ginato-bilobo , lobis oblongis, obtusis: infcriore trilobo, lobis pariter 

 oblongis oljtusisque , intermedio longiore. Akenia globuloso-compressa , 

 helvola aut rufula, laeviuscula. — SufTfrutex caespitosus, palmaris pe- 

 dalis. 



Genus referre dixeris, nisi eamdem calicis formam, vcl gradibus 

 intcrmediam, ut in Origa^iis, aflines species participcnt. 



